If you were to take a slice through the mid-range to high-end GPS market you'd have your hands on a device that covers a range of countries and includes a number of handy extras such as ...

Counting against the Freezer 7 Pro is its sheer size. Appreciating that this a quiet, and subsequently large, processor fan and heatsink, it's nonetheless going to struggle to fit into any kind of compact case, such ...

The ongoing romance between PC and TV has gathered pace this year: you'll now find a wide range of solutions if you're looking to get these two household 'essentials' working together. Although pivotal in the development ...

Many high definition movie fanatics have proclaimed that the PlayStation 3 is one of - if not the - best quality Blu-ray movie players on the market. As a result, there's an army of people who ...

Ten years or so ago, when the contrast in monitor screens was not as good as it is today, there was a market for filters to stick on them and make the blacks blacker. Now 3M ...

Over the last six months or so we've seen the traditional in-car GPS updated to include a range of extra features, including MP3 players, walking modes and travel guides. With devices shrinking in size and compatible ...

In a few years' time it should be perfectly feasible to expect subtle modifications to eyewear to allow us to watch football highlights or the news, or make video calls on the move. This may sound ...

You'd be forgiven for thinking that something branded 'Moviecentre for iPod' is a multimedia management suite for your Apple MP3 player, but in this case you'd be wrong. Xitel has produced an A/V docking station with ...

Technology advances pretty quickly these days and there seems no end to the combination of functions and features you can cram into everyday objects. Two of the biggest culprits in the 'overly gimmicky' category are surely ...

Over the last year we've seen in-car GPS devices change into more than just navigational aides. High-end models now go above and beyond additional map coverage and in Garmin's Nuvi 660 we've found one of the ...

Now ten years old, Sony's Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) format has doubled in capacity every two years, enabling the latest AIT-5 drive to cram 400GB of uncompressed data onto each cartridge. However, performance hasn't kept pace, ...

For as long as I can remember, Windows has relied on passwords for security. And for as long as I can remember, passwords have been a pain. Keep them short and they're easy to crack. Too ...

TerraTec's Noxon iRadio has a front face that doesn't, at first glance, give too much of the game away. With a minimal number of front-mounted controls and a design that harks back to the look of ...

During December 2006 it became legal to use portable FM radio transmitters in the UK. You are most likely to have heard of this concept in the shape of the iTrip FM transmitter for Apple's iPod, ...

Navman's TravelAssist is a mobile phone-based GPS solution that brings NavPix photo navigation to your handheld. It uses the latest Navman mobile maps and comes supplied with a choice of Bluetooth GPS receivers sporting the latest ...

According to Ofgem's 2005 annual report, every year eight out of ten users suffer interruptions to their power supplies, though the winter storms of 2002/3 pushed that figure up to nine out of ten. Even a ...

If you regularly use a laptop for computing away from base, you may miss your broadband Internet connection. It doesn't have to be that way, though, and all the main network operators have PC Cards which ...

Consumer CAD equipment has always been a bit of a mixed bag; very few companies find a way to effectively combine the natural ergonomics of traditional media with the accuracy of digital input. Selwyn Electronics' DigiMemo ...

It is no longer enough to produce a dedicated navigation system that can get you from A to B by shouting "at the next junction, turn left" and similar phrases. Navigation systems have to do a ...

At first glance the Pulsar 590A seems to be a chunky stereo headset which sits on a rather stylish stand, but looks a bit over-designed. After a fair amount of use, this impression remains, but the ...